s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Toe Wind
Jim Leftwich & Cheryl Penn & John M. Bennett

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Cheryl Penn is a conceptual artist, painter and  a maker of artists books.  An Encyclopedia of Everything is a collection of 70 international artists and numbers over 600 books on varied subjects. Penn’s main focus is visual poetry, asemic writing and aleatory verse.  She has formulated a complete writing system  – The Bhubezi Script as part of an ongoing mythology of the same name – The Women Who Hold Up the World.  She also holds workshops and courses based in narrative thinking, accessing instinctual creativity and unpacking traditional stories to situate them as psychological archetypes in a current context.

Jim Leftwich is a poet and essayist who lives in Roanoke, VA, USA. He is the author of Rascible & Kempt Vols. 1 – 3 (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016-2017) and I reMEmber petrOLeum  (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019)

John M. Bennett has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries.  His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. Among his latest books are The World of Burning, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017; Poemas visuales, con movimientos con ruidos con combinaciones (with Osvaldo Cibils), Deep White Sound, 2017; Olas Cursis, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018, and Dropped in the Dark Box, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019.